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July Mini-con
Speakers give presentations to help share what they know or practice their talks before a major presentation. Due to the proximity to DefCon/BlackHat/BSidesLV, I expect a few people to be practicing their DefCon talks. If your willing/interested to present, email or talk to forgotten (forgotten@forgottensec.com) and let me know your topic, and length of your…
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What Is a Hackerspace?
I get a lot of questions from the curious and/or uninitiated about what a hackerspace is. Every time I’m asked I find myself at somewhat of a loss for words. It’s not that a hackerspace isn’t definable — it’s just that it’s hard to describe what it means and why. For the purpose of answering the question, though:…
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x86 and ARM Assembly Class July 13th @ 6:30pm
The talented Munin has agreed to teach us about Assembly on July 13th at 6:30pm. He’s a great teacher who’s taught at Unallocatedspace before. A class description is below I’ll go over assembly programming for x86 and ARM CPUs. We’ll start from the perspective of “this is what C code does” so knowing a little…
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Big Changes Coming to Unallocatedspace
Hey everyone. As some of you may know, there have been some changes to the unallocatedspace board of directors. I (Crypt0s) am now president of Unallocatedspace following Dave Marcus’s resignation due to travel and availibility. With this Presidency, I am making significant changes at Unallocatedspace in the way that we do things around here, and…
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Global Reddit Meetup Day
It’s that time of year folks! Unallocated Space is proud to host the 3rd Annual Global Reddit Meetup event for Baltimore! The party starts this Saturday, June 23rd @ 1:00PM. We need: BYOB Burgers/Dogs/Buns/Food Your fat, lazy nerd asses to get out of your ass-imprinted computer chairs for a few hours to attend awesomeness. We…
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Seeking Lab Enthusiasts
Continuing with the trend of vastly improving the network infrastructure at Unallocated Space, we are now searching for anyone, someone, a couple of people–to be involved in building out our lab environment. Labs that we would like to see include: Malware Analysis, Forensics, Honeypots, Pentesting, Hardening, and many others! Unfortunately, the few building the network…
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Space Improvement Party June 2nd
Starting at around 12pm on June 2nd we will be having a space improvement party! A space improvement party is a time when we move things around in an attempt to see what works or what doesn’t in the layout of the space. We organize, clean, and optimize the space, then a PARTY!!!! Events like…
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Windows 8 – Secure Overwrite
In the ongoing battle of DOD 5220 and NIST SP800-88 and which secure overwrite procedure is the most suited to ensure no keyboard nor lab recovery of data stored on magnetic media; Microsoft has made further improvements to the Windows format utility to help make the choice that much easier. With Windows 7, Microsoft changed…
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Is this exe file malicious?
A really quick way to determine whether or not an executable is malicious is the location from which it is executing. While further investigation is always necessary, you can usually give a quick cursory glance to the file and determine that there is something malicious about it just by where it resides. Windows, like Unix…
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Basic best practices for Windows security
This blog post is intended for those whom are basic to moderately advanced (A+) users of Windows. I know some of you will sit here and say, “Windows!? How can you secure that!? Microsoft doesn’t know how to secure anything!” The reality of the situation is that since 2002, Microsoft has been at the forefront…
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